closer now that they have gotten into the fight and they are closer friends? >> who knows. i got the impression that the winner was saying to the other, this year, my turn. next year, you have your chance. >> okay >> you know, i never worked in a news market to air moose tips. >> i was going to say the same thing. i don't think we will have to do that. >> >> donald trump backing out of a "60 minutes" interview. why he is passing up one of the final opportunities for voters to see him in a prime time event before the election. [ticking] >> i'm lesley stahl. >> i'm bill whitaker. >> i don't want to talk to them. >> i'm anderson cooper. >> i'm sharyn alfonsi. >> i don't have time. >> i'm jon wertheim. >> i'm doing something else it's very important. >> i'm scott pelley. >> donald j. trump here to introduce trump watches. >> so what just happened?

>> it's trump time. [ticking] >> announcer: it's "the late show" live with stephen colbert!" tonight... roll of the vice! plus, stephen welcomes andrew garfield! and ina garten! featuring louis cato and "the late show" band. and now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, it's stephen colbert! ♪ ♪ >> stephen: let's go! get on board on this train. it's leaving the station. [cheers and applause] >> do it live!

>> stephen: let's do it live. come on. thanks, everybody! down here, up there. >> stephen! stephen! stephen! >> stephen: [laughs] please have a seat, everybody. that's so nice. hi, folks. welcome. welcome one and all to "the late show." i'm your host, stephen colbert. [cheering] we're all still struggling to digest last night's vice presidential debate, which is surprising, because usually i have no trouble eating two slices of white bread. 'cause last night i don't know if you watched, last night was a frosty cup of zzzquil. one common take across all the news channels is that boring was good? >> there was no shouting, name-calling or talking over each other.

in fact, the u.s. vice presidential debate seemed almost normal. >> it was a very calm, normal debate. >> this felt like almost like going back into the past of, like, this is what vp debate sort of felt like in the normal times. >> stephen: hey! you know what's not normal? celebrating how normal something is. "our special tonight is a perfectly normal, nothing-to-see-here piece of chicken that is definitely not the chef's foot that fell into a pot. it's served on a bed of dr. scholl's. bon api-feet." the atlantic described the debate as "a vision of what american politics could be without the distorting gravitational field generated by donald trump." [cheers and applause] yeah. no, i agree. i love that. i would love that. it is true. it could be. but here's the thing: donald trump hasn't gone anywhere. he's still the main character. this is like a scene from "it" witout pennywise on camera, and suddenly, everyone's like,

"whelp, i guess there's no more scary clowns in derry! oooh, free sewer balloon. [screams] vance spent the entire debate trying to un-fascist trump's ideas by lying about them with a calm voice and blue eyes, like this moment where he recast trump's repeated attempts to repeal obamacare in an entirely different light. >> i think you could make a really good argument that it salvaged obamacare, which was doing disastrously until donald trump came along. >> stephen: that kind of junior high debate-team sophistry is exactly the worst kind of behavior intelligent people use to justify evil. "you know what? you know, when you think about it, it could be argued that godzilla really spearheaded tokyo's urban renewal. [laughter] and he wouldn't have to use his nuclear breath if we just had more domestic energy production." when asked about trump's

failed 2020 coup, vance somehow said this with a straight face. >> it's really rich for democratic leaders to say that donald trump is a unique threat to democracy when he peacefully gave over power on january the 20th. [audience rax] >> stephen: yeah, yeah. 14 days after his plot to overthrow the election ended in a violent coup that failed. that's like saying to your ex, "barbara, i think it's rich that you're calling me psychotically obsessed with our relationship when i left your and brad's wedding peacefully. you're the one who won't stop talking about me setting fire to the dj. he's fine. he's not talking about it. is he conscious yet? he's not conscious?"

vance may seem normal with the sound down and no furniture around, but never forget: the man he works for is donald trump, who is profoundly abnormal. you know who is normal? tim walz. because, before the debate, he was seen jogging in central park. but then afterwards, walz and his wife were spotted grabbing a slice of pizza from a new york pizza shop. being good all day and then throwing in the towel and eating garbage right before bed? that man is america. okay? i feel seen. but i do have to say, you're 60 years old and eating pizza after 11:00 p.m.? why would you do that to yourself, sir? >> i am a knucklehead at times. >> stephen: understood. and, gotta say, it didn't seem like he was taking a victory lap, because here they are deciding what to get. looks like they're at a funeral for a calzone. "oh, he was so young and cheesy.

could we have the sauce on the side, please?" but back to j.d. vance. his job last night was to normalize trump's madness, to put lipstick on that old pork chop. but i don't know how much meat is left on that bone. he's beginning to look pretty worn out. for instance, yesterday, he was at a factory in wisconsin? he was in wisconsin. where he took his crowd of maga faithful on a trip to the land of quiet sadness. >> every day, we will be filled with opportunity and hope. we don't have opportunity. we don't have hope anymore in this country. there's no hope. your kids, you have beautiful kids and, you know, they don't even know what to do. there's no hope. >> stephen: inspiring stuff. reminds me of that classic motivational poster: "soon this cat will fall and die." it's friday. it's friday.

soon this cat will fall and die. in another sign that his brain may have stepped on a banana peel, trump tried to thank the hosts of the event like this. >> this is a speech on the economics and bringing back business and things, and it's a great plant and a beautiful couple, a beautiful -- a beautiful mr. and mrs. couple. [laughter] >> stephen: he really sounds like a wedding dj who lost his notes. "ladies and gentlemen, please welcome mr. and mrs. couple! yes, and the bride will dance with... ahhh! somebody. set me on fire!" [applause] it's a callback. trump also reprised his very normal obsession with water-efficient bathrooms. >> you gotta see the bathrooms that they project for people. i can't talk to you about it because it's so gross. but basically

water-free bathrooms. water free. no water. this is not good. [laughter] >> stephen: water-free bathrooms? are we sure he didn't just poop in a coat closet? "it was a very weird bathroom, over there. all the urinals have pockets, and the toilet paper is shoes. i'm telling you. i'm in there. i'm wipin' with a wingtip." later, trump took his few remaining functional brain cells, put them in a little red wagon, and dragged them to milwaukee, where he spoke to the press about afghan soldiers. >> good fighters, great fighters i tell you. among the best. they're actually among the -- they could take a knife. they were like rambo. it's like putting a million rambos. good ol' sylvester stallone, whose my friend, but it's like putting a million rambos. >> stephen: sounds crazy, i know, but they actually did make a million rambos. there's "rambo: first blood," "rambo: last blood," "rambo: wait, there's more blood."

"rambo: oh, that's just ketchup," and "rambo: nope, it was blood." of course, voting has already begun in the most important election of our lifetimes. i'm talking about the online vote for katmai national park's fat bear week 2024! [cheering] we got some fat bear fans. for those who follow, there were new bears on the block this y year. like "zippy," a subadult who was recently "cut off" by her mother and has been seen putting in serious work to figure life out on her own. good for you, zippy! shes a young adult bear just trying to find her place in the world, like that iconic hbo show, "grrrrrls." rrrrr! [applause] really? okay. there's also a bear called bucky dent, who, reportedly, is known to moonwalk on camera.

that sounds kinda cool. let's see the footage. ♪ oh, yes ♪ ♪ he's bear, he's bear ♪ ♪ salmon it! ♪ whoo! okay, i want to point out, you can't see his feet. if that counts, then watch me go! whoo! whoo! whoo! whoo! whoo! and now riverdance! i'm exhausted. [cheers and applause] should i be this tired from pretending to dance? but beware, this year's fat bear competition is full of drama. see, the bracket with the fat bears was supposed to be released on tuesday, but on the day of the announcement, an adult male bear fatally attacked another bear. and 480 otis, who won the inaugural fat bear tuesday contest and won three

more titles, is nowhere to be found. one bear is murdered. another bear is missing? there's too much bear-on-bear crime, and you can see it all dramatized on the hit new procedural, "claw and order." >> in the criminal justice system, the -- [growling] oh, my god, a bear! how did it get in the sound booth? aaaah!" >> bear-bear. >> stephen: now, things aren't looking great. i think dick wolf has got another hit on his hands. things aren't looking great for the missing bear, because it's probable that he succumbed to age, injury, or starvation somewhere in the park's vast forests or tundra. but just to be sure, somebody check rfk jr.'s freezer. now... now, fans of this show know that i have a dog in this bear fight, and it's 747 "colbert,"

[cheers and applause] the 2020 and 2022 fat bear week winner, whose nickname was inspired by the ear imperfection he shares with me. okay? regular ear. freak ear. handsome? grotesque. the similarities don't end there, because he also wrote a cookbook with my wife, evie. there you go. i was pretty nervous heading into this because, according to the comments section of the fat bear week website, where, it turns out, mark robinson has been posting some freaky stuff, they're saying 747 colbert was not seen at brooks river in september this year. now, i was worried for my boy. my fat, fat boy. but a mere 11 hours after colbert was deemed missing,

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♪ ♪ [cheers and applause] >> stephen: there you go, ladies and gentlemen. welcome back. give it up for louis cato and "the late show" band right over there. come on! i'm going to tell you. [cheers and applause] please have a seat, everybody. you know what? there's so much electricity in this room tonight. [cheering] it almost feels like a live s show. >> louis: almost feels like a

live show. >> stephen: it's got that kind of fraison. we have great guests which i will get to a minute. first i want to say happy birthday to jimmy carter who turned 100 yesterday. happy birthday, president carter. i have been lucky enough i interviewed carter three or four times over theirs, it's it's an extraordinary man, redefined the post of presidency. he should be a model for everybody who seeks public office. i love that he's 100. he's holding on against everybody's expectations because he says he wants to vote for his party's candidate one last time. we should all do the same. that's his dream. that's his dream. his other dream is to tour with cirque du soleil. one last time. coming up in a few minutes we've got two extraordinary guests that i love talking to and respect enormously. andrew garfield will be out here. [cheers and applause] got that new movie "we live

in time" with florence pugh. just one of my favorite people, on camera and off in the world, i ina garten will be out here. [cheers and applause] 1 of my favorite jokes, evie and i are going to be on ina show. we've taped it and we are going to be on her show. it's fantastic. i bring that up because my favorite joke from that monologue that you just saw was this mock-up of evie's book with a bear. does this taste honey? i love it so much. if you want your own copy of "does this taste funny?" the actual book, i've got a great opportunity for you. this friday evening's in the evening with stephen colbert and evie mcgee colbert life at new york city's town hall with moderator, the wonderful allison roman for the time is 7:00 p.m. you can scan the qr code. not only do you spend an evening with us but all tickets include a copy of "is this taste funny?"

i will see you there. [applause] folks, i love science, even the old-school stuff. that's why i still use mercury to treat my headaches. works like a charm. plus, my barber says my skull has never been softer. and i like to tell you all about the latest science stuff in my science segment... >> the sound of science! ♪ hello, science ♪ ♪ my old friend ♪ [cheers and applause] >> stephen: i am like the neil degrasse tyson. first up in science, a new study suggests that nearly one in three u.s. adults may have an iron deficiency. so look to your left. now look to your right. if that made you dizzy, you may have an iron deficiency. okay? news you can use. next up, a "tiny earth-like world has been discovered, which the researchers said has a "minimum mass of 37% of the mass of earth. that's a little shy of half a venus and about 2.5 marses."

thank you, but you guys realize we have no idea what any of that means, right? "uh, it's about a quarter-jupiter. 10 microneptunes. or approximately three plutos stacked in a trench coat wearing a hat." next up, according to a new study, typically solitary octopuses can actually work with other fish to hunt and will punch them if they do not cooperate. we have actual footage of an octopus wailing on its buddies who aren't pulling their weight. there they are. pow! boom! it's gotta be time-consuming to fist-fight an octopus. "say hello to my friends, knuckle and sandwich... and kickin' ass... and takin' names... and this one is, i wanna say rick? rich! sorry." next up, there's a rare fish in the red sea that looks like

a guitar called the halavi guitarfish. unfortunately, it only knows "wonder wall" and it's always practicing. move on to something else. "smoke on the water," "blackbird." next up, bad news: you're older than you were when i began this sentence. but did you age gracefully? well, a new york city company has developed a simple swab test that can tell how well you're aging. while they say their swab test is very informative, the company warns that it does not predict when you will die and how. of course not. there's no way to know the exact date and circumstance of your death, unless you visit svetlana, the forest witch, and pay a terrible price. and once the knowledge is given, it can never be taken back. curiosity may tempt you, but heed my warning: the burden of forever knowledge is heavy, for we are not meant to grasp the time of our own

undoing! would that i could unsee what i have seen! [ding] oh! what's that? ooh, a groupon for hang-gliding! i really shouldn't. but it's $5 off!" next up, there's some fun primate news. according a new study, gibbons dance like humans. here's a look at the gibbon dancing like a human. go! get it! work that thang! and i think it's only fair that gibbons dance like humans. since we know some humans dance like gibbons. [applause] uh, mm! the research also found that these gibbons, which are all female, sometimes dance for no other reason than to get attention. which is also why they show up at karaoke going "oh, my god. this is so embarrassing.

i don't even sing! i don't even ♪ sii-ii-ii-iii-iiiinnggg! ♪ ♪ oooh ah! ♪ whoo! next up on the sci-sound, thanks to a trend on social media, women are taking mucinex to get pregnant. but does it work? it does if you want your baby to look like this. next on sos, "nuking an asteroid could save earth from destruction." that, of course, the lead article in this month's "new england journal of awesome michael bay stuff." we'll be right back with andrew garfield! ♪ ♪

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♪ ♪ >> stephen: welcome back to our special involuntary live show. my first guest this evening is a tony winning actor you know from "spiderman," "hacksaw ridge," and "tick, tick, boom!" his new film is called "we live in time."

>> i saw you last week. i was passing by the restaurant. it made me realize, well, two things. first of which i was still quite angry with you. because although i might have been somewhat insensitive, you were rude to me which yeah, a lot hurt. and the second thing, i was guilty of focusing on the wrong thing. aspect. looking ahead instead of right in front of me at you. >> stephen: please welcome back to "the late show," andrew garfield! [cheers and applause]

♪ ♪ >> andrew: hello. >> stephen: good to see you. always lovely to talk to you. it's been too long. >> andrew: i feel the same. three years? >> stephen: where does the time go? we live in it. >> andrew: and we'll be right back. >> stephen: last time we saw you was right before your second oscar nomination. congratulations. that's called a colbert bomb. you've two oscar oscar knobs, one emmy you're an actor. every actor goes through moment of crisis. one was the moment idiot you that maybe you wouldn't make it. >> andrew: i remember i used

to work. like any act or great or small, we all go through waiting tables stage at some point. >> stephen: many. five years. are you good? >> andrew: i loved it because it was a way to work on my shtick and it was a way of connecting with people in my loneliness and my terror of not living the life i wanted to live. >> stephen: occasionally bringing them food i hope. >> andrew: once in a while. but i would always come up because i was broke and i was sharing a house, an apartment in some outskirts of london and i would always try to ask for the table to serve that i could perceive there was the skinniest old w -- oldest lady. this i promise will make sense. because i knew they would usually leave most of their meal behind. don't judge me! >> stephen: [laughs]

the food that the kitchen staff woul serve for lunch was not as good as they would make for the patron. i was at the wigmore hall. i would be hovering around old skinny lovely ladies. as soon as i dropped their food, are you done with that? they would have a couple bites with their little bird stomachs than i would whisk the plate back into the kitchen, hide it behind the freezer. >> stephen: because it safe fireable offense. i waited tables for years. i would love it if someone would order and did not touch the king crab legs because it came in its own case. every waiter is doing this. when you were in l.a., you go to london and you go to l.a., you are running with a great group

of british actors. tom sturridge, jamie dornan. that's rolling with a sexy crew. >> andrew: they were sexy. still are sexy. >> stephen: i didn't question your continued sexiness. >> andrew: not me. >> stephen: what were those auditions like? >> andrew: it was rough. it was a rough time periods during your panning for gold. >> andrew: on my first auditions where i met these guys. tom and eddie and may be robert pattinson. i can't remember. there was an addition or we were auditioning to play siamese twins who were the joint fragment of a british punk band. and we were trying to out-intensify each other. to he point of physical violence. young actors. this is what acting is. we just beat the crap out of each other. there is this image, i don't

know if we have it. there's an image of myself and eddie perry to see if we could ostensibly look like twins, conjoined twins. they had what i thought was a pair of tights but i guess it's a do rag. and at this moment i didn't realize that 20 years later i would have to be defending an accidental appropriation of a culture that's not mine. there are people who see this and they are like, andrew garfield, cancel him. i thought it was a pair of tights because they were trying to make it seem -- to get our hair out of our faces to see if we could ostensibly look like twins. >> stephen: did you get the part? >> andrew: i did not. we only have to take a quick break. >> andrew: what a weird moment to take a break. >> stephen: andrew garfield. wit, imagine being good to go without daily hiv pills.

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♪ ♪ >> stephen: hey, everybody! here with the young and talented andrew garfield. u.n. florence pugh star in the i've got the picture here. new film, "we live in time." >> andrew: she's phenomenal. she's incredible. >> stephen: she is extraordinary. your performance is getting

incredible reviews. i haven't had a chance to see it. but i have seen this poster was put up as part of an ad campaign. can you explain what is going on with the demon carousel horse? this became a thing. it became such a thing i was convinced it was fake, that someone had done this to you. what the hell is this? what did you think when you saw it? >> andrew: i know you've been dying dying to know this story. all i can say. i was about to head into retreat, six day retreat in northern california where i put my phone away and doing these things and i was doomscrolling as you do before i entered this retreat. and i see this image and i think maybe i'm the only one that will notice this insane horse. it feels like we are in his poster in a way.

i'm probably being overly sensitive and no one else will see it. i go to this retreat, turn my phone off. six days later, the first thing i see is stephen colbert talking about the insane horse and i see all the means. i was crying with laughter. i guess other people noticed it. including you. i'm going to make a three-part documentary series to get to the bottom of where the oversight fell apart and why this horse has taken on the life of its own. in fact, have a gift for you if you would like. i know you love this movie. >> stephen: i love gifts. >> andrew: your big florence pugh fan. youdeserve it. [cheering] >> stephen: it says, it says "what's the rush?" is that a reference to the film? >> andrew: you have to see the movie.

>> stephen: okay. you also two make a beautiful couple. it's this incredible love story between a man and a woman, the connections between different moments in their lives. i was hoping you could throw yourself back in your own mind for a moment and talk about your first brush with love. what was the first time that you said "that is the one for me?" >> andrew: or my gosh, stephen. why are you doing this to me? i was 14 years old. yeah. her name was sarah. i'm not going to sell her out. we were at the bus stop waiting to be picked up after school. i was at her new school she was singing this spice girls song "if you want to be my lover." i was 4'1". she was about 5'11". beautiful blonde porcelain skill skin, just gorgeous. she was singing that song.

she said "would you like to be my lover?" i am 13. prepubescent. i said i would love that. we go to her house. she said and having little gathering at my house if you'd like to come. i felt like the fonzerelli from happy days. as i arrived, it's her mom. sarah, it's your mom. she's whispering to one for friends. her friend comes over to me. this is 45 minutes after we started our relationship. one of our friends comes over and says to me "sarah is breaking up with you" because some stone from the neighboring high school just called and said "hey, do you want to be my lover." i was obsessed for three years. i am okay now obviously. i'm absolutely fine. >> stephen: how many oscar nominations does the stud have? >> andrew: it was

ryan gosling. just kidding! >> stephen: lovely to see you. thank you so much for being here, andrew. "we live in time" is available in select theaters october 11th and nationwide october 18th. andrew garfield, everybody. we'll be right back with ina garten. [music playing] today, you can give a gift like no other. a gift that can help st. jude children's research hospital save lives. i think it's the most worthwhile place to put your money when it comes to childhood cancer. if it weren't for st. jude, i wouldn't be sitting here today. if it weren't for st. jude, a lot of kids wouldn't be with their families every day. let's come together to help the children of st. jude fight childhood cancer visit this website, call this number, or scan the qr code with your $19 monthly donation. join with your debit or credit card right now, and we'll send you this st. jude t-shirt you can proudly wear to show your support. today you can help

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does mark farrell have the right experience to shake up city hall? in nearly ten years as supervisor, mark grew the bureaucracy by authorizing or creating a commission almost every year. he rubber stamped hundreds of millions to homeless nonprofits

with zero accountability and orchestrated a pay-to-play scheme that sold out taxpayers to the highest bidder. mark farrell has all the wrong experience for the change we need. >> stephen: hey! you've got it, baby. that counts.

welcome back, everybody. ladies and gentlemen, my next guest is a beloved food network star who has written 13 bestselling cookbooks. she's now written a new memoir, "be ready when the luck happens." please welcome back to "the late show," ina garten. [cheers and applause] ♪ ♪ won't you please. it's always lovely to have you on the show. >> ina: last time i saw you was east hampton. >> stephen: evie and i were lucky enough to be on your show. >> ina: i tell everybody, these guys are like a 50s screwball comedy. you are so great together. i adore you. you are like cary grant and she is like roslyn russell in "his girl friday." you had such a good time

together. >> stephen: you are my favorite guest of all time. thank you very much. you have been on before. we have cooked together. this is an interview about your new book right here. "be ready when the luck happens." i want to get to it in a second but just because we are sitting doesn't mean i can't make something for you. i know you like a cocktail. would you care for a cosmo? >> ina: such a little glass. >> stephen: don't worry. we are making plenty of it. we've got special instructions. it says, will you make sure they use freshly squeezed lime juice? no substitutions. and ocean spray cranberry juice cocktail." madam, i hear and i obey. >> ina: look at the size of the shaker. >> stephen: during covid. hold on one second. to hell with it. there we go.

there we go. why worry about it? why worry about it. it serializes my hands. don't worry about that. we will mopped that up later. >> ina: your hands at an extra perfect flavor that everybody needs. [laughs] >> stephen: cheers to your new book. you've written 13 bestsellers. [cheering] oh, i need that. you've written 13 best-selling cookbooks but this is your first memoir, your first noncookbook read how would you compare? is this harder or easier? >> ina: it's so different because he want thing i always do. i always look ahead and i've never really looked back. it was interesting to look back. there are things in my life that are really consistent. >> stephen: such as? >> ina: what surprised me looking back is how much courage

i had to do things that were really -- look scary right now. like living a perfectly good government job and buying a specialty foods store or walking away from a specialty foods store or to not know what i was going to do and it ended up being i was writing cookbooks. each time, it really took a chance that at the time didn't seem so scary and i look back and think "wow, that was really courageous." >> stephen: you do have a fine job working in the carter administration, in the energy department. >> ina: i worked in the white house actually. >> stephen: that's kind of a glamorous job. >> ina: everybody thought i was crazy. i was walking away from a job in the white house to run a grocery store. i mean, everybody thought, why are you doing this? >> stephen: this was the job you left, it was called the barefoot contest and when bought it. here you are. here you are a 1978. the opening of the barefoot contessa.

did you know how to do this? >> ina: i didn't know how to do it. i do know how to run a food store. i never even been a waiter in a restaurant. >> stephen: what on earth were you thinking? >> ina: i thought cooking was fun. i thought that was what i was going to do. little did i know how hard it was but it was so much fun. that crazy picture with all the fancy food around me. i have this little gold necklace on. when i first bought the store, everybody treated me like i worked behind the counter. it was like, what am i going to do to change this question i thought, have to change something. i walked across the street and i bought one i thought was the biggest gold necklace had ever seen in my life and i put it on and i came back to the story everybody went "oh, this is your store? oh, it's wonderful." changed everybody. to see a picture of that, it's a tiny little gold necklace. >> stephen: these necklaces say "i have a lot of bestsellers."

>> ina: [laughs] things have changed. >> stephen: cheers. when evie and i were on, we had a great time with you. and jeffrey. i'm a fan of yours but i'm a huge jeffrey fan. i love it when he's on and you send him on things. >> ina: sent him out for a cantaloupe and he comes back with a honey do. >> stephen: you went through so many of your old letters at the beginning of your relationship with jeffrey. you saved them all. is it true that the old letters somehow prophesied your life now? >> ina: there were things in those letters that i didn't remember. he sent me a letter when i was i think in high school or college and he said "i want to take you to paris." maybe we will have -- we won't have money in the beginning and we will go camping but hopefully someday we'll have enough money to stay in hotel and if we are really lucky we can rent an apartment. we had no recollection. you have a picture of that?

>> stephen: your paris apartment. >> ina: things worked out ok okay. we started by camping. >> stephen: the book is "be ready when the luck happens." the woman is i in a garden. congratulations on it all coming true. "be ready when the luck happens" is available now. the lady is ina garten, everybody. we'll be right back.

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>> stephen: ah, that's it for "the late show," everybody. tune in tomorrow when my guests will be cnn's chris wallace and chef yotam ottolenghi. now stick around for "after midnight" with taylor tomlinson and her wonderful show. good night! ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪